On 8 Oct 2008, at 12:37, John Leach wrote:

> I'd assumed the majority of trainers wrote their own materials (both  
> you
> and Paul seem to be doing).  Seems a shame for all those trainers to  
> be
> all repeating themselves rewriting materials. All that wasted brain
> power!


Well, I'm preparing my own materials because decent materials don't  
currently exist - even AWDwR teaches TDD as an afterthought. However,  
I will be borrowing heavily from inspiration found in various books  
and materials already there. I imagine the first Rails app people will  
be building will be a shopping cart, for example... :-)


> You could sell trainer training too btw - train people how to deliver
> the materials you wrote.  Maybe offer support, so they can contact you
> during their courses if they need to clarify anything (not sure how  
> that
> would work out).


I certainly intend to do that.

For me the business execution is still being worked out, but it's this  
simple: I don't know how to sell training courses, so I'll partner  
with a firm that does sell IT training all the time and we'll share up  
the profits. I don't mind coding, I don't mind training, but I don't  
think I have the mindset to sell training courses so I'll "outsource"  
that bit.

That doesn't prevent the learning materials themselves being shared  
openly though.

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